Word: ests
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...them in a new way. In a war of movement!" "Ah, mon vieux, comme vous etes naif!" said an old French general. "A war of movement across the dry Polish plains, oui! But through the Ardennes, through the Dutch floods, through the Belgian defenses, through the Maginot . . . c'est ridicule...
...Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...
...French critic, asked who was really France's greatest poet, answered: "Helas! C'est Victor Hugo." Mr. Shanks sadly admits that no recent English critic would have thought of including Rudyard Kipling among England's great, even tagged with an "Alas!" Mr. Shanks says briskly that this is a lot of nonsense: Kipling was not merely a great writer but a great political thinker, and got better & better as he went along. Less a critic than a partisan, Mr. Shanks thus arouses, in his own fainter way, echoes of the same violent feelings that Kipling himself once...
...Dining Car. In this same car, in this same spot, in the bleak November dawn of another Friday 22 years ago tough old Marshal Foch received the German delegation with these words: "Qu'est-ce que vous désirez, messieurs?" ("What do you want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared...
Into the waters of the East Pascagoula River last week slid the 492-foot, 8,900-ton cargo ship Exchequer - first ship launched from Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.'s brand-new ways at Pascagoula, Miss. Lat est addition to the Maritime Commission's new U. S. merchant marine (500 ships in ten years), the $2,600,000 cargopassenger carrier held more than passing interest for U. S. shipbuilders. She was the largest all-welded general cargo ship ever built...